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before the reader, I Ihall here paule awhile, as the nartatdr-
Of thefq, event's, and deliver the account of'this expedition
nearly in the words in which I received it from Mr.' M.-
W ilson, who was himfelf an adtor in the whole bufinefs-.. »
“ The night we quitted OroolOng we got to Pelew,
“ and the King was defirous of proceeding immediately on
“ his Way to Artingall ; but it proving veryrwet, we ob-
“ jedted to it, on account of the rain damaging our arms,,
“ which he being made fenfible of, agreed ttLdefer advanc-
ing till the enfuing evening. We were conducted to the
“ fame houfe where my brother and Mr. Sharp had been
“ before entertained, and where we were fupplied ; with
“ every'accommodation that we could expert, or'delire.
. “ On the evening- o f the next day we all aflembled-on
“ the caufeway, or wharf, where alfo were the King, E a a
“ K ook, A rra'K ooker, and the other Rupacks and great
“ officers; and we all went on:board the canoes ftationed
.4 there to receive us. We were followed to the Ihore'by; a
“ number of old men, women, and children, who appeared
“ to be drawn ' together both by curiofity and intereft.
“ When the canoes were quitting the land," a corich-fhell
“ was loudly founded, to notify our departure; and other
“ canoes difpatched to different parts of the ifland to:'Colledh
“ various detachments which were lying off in creeks and
“ remoter places, and' only waited the King’s lignal to
“ join
join hint; which,-in i ceniequqnep of repenting they-foon,
“ did. And thus reinforced, being upwards @f,|wo hun-
“ dred p jnpes, we proceeded* during the night; towards,
« but ftppped^. fonje-hqur^ ,bq£prqti4Ryqhght*
■ «.at an ifland fubjedt to Ab,ba .whetp we went on,
«glhore, upon a wharf, and flept on the- gmupd for about,
“ threp hours g then re-embarked,; .and,-pafik^. j|wdugh' a
“ labyrkgh' jof narrow channels,, arrived off: A rtingali,,
“ a. little before day-direakj here they ad halted- till »the
‘‘.friing ,hf the fun, it being a maxim -with the natives pf
^jPEJHSWrinever to attack an enemy a* the hfcjjfc*-Pf
*s him by fbrprize« As the day came on, a fmall canoe»,
« Bght-built, rx«itaining, only four m e n , m a n having,
^anwibis hair a whitg featiier, ftuek juprjght (and ,which
“ wdre the long tropic-birdj-f^s
“ m©n*d the enemy |to a parley^ .the pedha wearing irthe
« white . fo*th®r M u g y a r d e d la fhe nature
« either brining terms; ordemanding tqdse heard,
“ ties in thi? Interval remained jWpepded. .
<{ A®ba TnuLbE 'h ad previoufly ISdPg.
ARtFi^oAiL, that he intqnded jn a fpw daygktp .pffqr
“ him battle; fo the latter was not unprqpgrqd Jbr
“ qvenb %oel
“ patched a canoe to It a a KooK;.'.whd_4 e^l.«i^d
“ if they SvpiddjfeWt'hJ-f^-lier003
u had propped, by way, of ,atoning for the irynties
X “ plained
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